Today is Melbourne Cup Day in Victoria – the day of the big horse races – and that is a public holiday! We didn’t know it…
Wendelin would like to do a tour with P.S. Melbourne (P.S. is Paddle Ship) in the river Murray. And we would have liked to do an organised kayak tour – it looked promissing on the flyer. We finally rented a 2 person kayak out of plastic but we don’t really manage to: due to the public holiday, the river is full of speed boats and jet skies, causinf quite high waves that keep us busy all the time. And we have to paddle upstream first – all in all not the pleasure we expected. We decide to go back after half an hour, already totally wet, and forget about the 30 AUD. Unfortunately, there is only a picture of Annette in the kayak at the pier.
Back at the campground which is booked out due to the public holiday, we look after the laundry – it is dry. So, we fold them on one of the wooden tables…. Although it doesn’t look like, Wendelin also helped.
We spend the rest of the afternoon in Wentworth, the little town (30 km away) where the Darling River flows into the Murray River.
That is where both rivers meet. The Darling River (on the picture the lower part) auf dem Bild der untere Flusslauf) is the longest river in Australia with 2844 km – der Murray River (above) is the second longest with 2375 km. Both have over their length just 900 m of incline, the Darling even only 119 m – so they slowly slip by.
Here, quite a lot of birds are heard and seen, colourful ones and big white cockatoos but they are difficult to take a picture of Finally, Annette got one Rosella, a sort of parrot:
Back at the campground we cook again – this time a beautiful steak with different vegetables. Another camp cooker had kangaroo meat and let us try it (quite nice).
We still write a bit and will soon go to our tent – hoping that this night will not be as cold as the last one.
Tomorrow, we will continue to Adelaide to see Kerryn and John. This night, however, we will be guarded by this wooden dwarf who was carved in a living tree next to our site.
And here a map for today: